Re: schmaltz, pandering and Klezmatics

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Seems pretty modern to me, but then maybe I'm flattering myself.  I saw a
Stravinsky piece performed at Tanglewood.  My son is a drummer, and also into
free-style biking.  I wished he could have seen the intent and the sheer
physicality of the percussionist at the xylophone.  That ain't Mozart, man!

Owen

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> Sara also said:
> >
> >       Relevantly, Anthony Tommasini had a depressingly ignorant
> >review in the NY Times a couple weeks ago, about a Stravinsky festival
> >in San Francisco.  He spoke of symphony orchestras' declining cachet
> >among the under-30s, a trend every classical-music pundit laments.
> >Then he MARVELED at the crowd of young folk at this Stravinsky show.
> >How could it be, he wondered, that you can't pay most 25-year-olds to
> >go see Mozart's Jupiter symphony performed, but they'll shell out
> >bucks for newmusic?
>
> How long ago did Stravinsky die? 28 years? Doesn't exactly seem 'modern' to
> me!
>                 EK
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said Little creature formd of Joy and Mirth
Go Love without the help of any King on Earth

Wm. Blake


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